A young boy, faced with the prospect of having to take a music class, thinks about all the terrible stories he has heard about the music teacher, Miss LaNote, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
The Bailey School kids decide to investigate when they begin to believe that the new piano teacher who lives in a castle is really a knight planning to take over the city.